I have this idea that on the front page there would be some sort of little box or applet (I have no predisposition to the technology) that would play tracks posted on the site. My first idea was "electro-music.com track of the day". Each day a new track is played by pushing a button - or possibly played automatically when someone loads the front page. The applet should show some text that has appropraite links for the track, ie. artist's forum. website, CDs for sale, etc.

Another variant would the the electro-box, that would have all of the tracks, arranged and searchable - with all of the relevant textual info, including to forum topics where the composer and the tracks are discussed.

This is sorta like a play list, but with more information. Maybe a playlist with a webpage for each track. I saw something like that on Real Audio's site, but of course it was for commercial pop music only.

Good idea. I'd vote against "auto-play" - personally it irritates me anytime a website has automatic music. I'm not sure why. Heck - most of the time I don't have my speakers on anyway. Also, users on dialup - music is a killer on bandwidth at almost any level.

But... having a featured track and information in a box - yeah - great idea. I'm wondering if I've seen that somewhere. Ok - something close...

ambient.us has a "just added" box (although the box lines are removed) on their front page. Not what you're saying - but similar:

I checked out ambient.us but didn't see what you were talking about. They seem to use Live365 which I tried to use but too many problems. You must disable popups, and them register, and then you get a million horrible ads.

All graphics and text and all that will likely change before we roll it out officially. I'm more just trying things out to see how they work. Planning to spend an hour or two tonight (finally some free time!).

The ambient.us thing - it's the "new" list on the front page. It's just nothing close to what you're suggesting. I know I saw something close in the last month, just a matter of remembering enough of what it was to do a search. If nothing else - there should be a mod close enough to do some tweaking from.

I like this streaming music idea. However, I must also vote against the "auto-play" feature as well...its best not to force anything on anyone, but putting the "box" in an obvious place with a big "PLAY" button would be good.

Perhaps you could incorporate it as "electro-music.com 'net radio" feature, or something of the sort. I've seen many "internet radio stations" on record label sites, and they're a good way to hear a variety of what the site has to offer minus the hassle of downloads.

I guess it boils down to two issues.. a webapp which can parse together playlists.. ( an interface for entering song metainfo is needed too ) and a playbackdevice that uses the playlist info.

A) That that hard to do at all.. but it will demand some coding using some tool.. there are easy php tools for setting up lists and listediitors... and the info can go into like mySQl or whatever. It is also possibly to use a shockwave interface ( but this has to be coded too ).

B) We can just point the .m3u at whatever mp3 default "stream" playback device the user might have on his disk.

The input interface for A could be built into the userprofile in the forum. This means that each user also gets a personal interface to entering his own metainfo.. .. asset location urls and other info._________________A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"

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